Under the umbrella of Google Summer of Code 2009 a tool to collect data on Gentoo machine setups has been developed to be able to better prioritize development efforts in Gentoo.
The data collected ranges from details about installed packages to compile flags to the selection of mirrors. What data is submitted can be configured freely to match your needs of privacy.

With the collected data Gentoo will be able to better answer all sorts of questions including:

Moved from Other Things Gentoo to Gentoo Chat and made sticky. Old stats sticky here._________________Please read our FAQ Forum, it answers many of your questions.
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Is the intention to introduce smolt to the official tree anytime "soon", like, <1 month?
If so, I'll hold for that. Overlays are a great tool, but I prefer not to need keeping track of several of them.

Smolt is already available, the Gentoo branch is experimental still and will be merged into the Smolt mainline sometime soon. So this is for testing only, a widespread "official" usage will be announced through other channels._________________Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project, GNU Emacs wrangler
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Very interesting statistics.
A question now, I run funtoo ~amd64. Can I still install the tools or would you prefer not ? (not meant to start a polemic here btw Just asking because I don't know if you would prefer it to be 100% pure Gentoo or if something so heavily based on Gentoo as Funtoo can be of interest for you )_________________"Please, forgive my bad English"
Gentoo made me love using my computer again. Thank you to the Gentoo devs and more generally to all the people who makes GNU/Linux possible

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Thank you for your very fast answer V-Li, then I will install it _________________"Please, forgive my bad English"
Gentoo made me love using my computer again. Thank you to the Gentoo devs and more generally to all the people who makes GNU/Linux possible

Missed this earlier...I'm on board. I participated in the original gentoo statistics system, until it suddenly just went away. Maybe something like that can return...it provides a very interesting look at the trends of the installed base.

fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches.
Did you intend to checkout 'origin/gentoo' which can not be resolved as commit?
>>> Unpacked to /var/tmp/portage/app-admin/gentoo-smolt-9999/work/gentoo-smolt-9999
sandbox:main signal SIGQUIT already had a handler ...

sandbox:main signal SIGQUIT already had a handler ...

sandbox:main signal SIGQUIT already had a handler ...

/var/tmp/portage/app-admin/gentoo-smolt-9999/temp/environment: line 3508: cd: /var/tmp/portage/app-admin/gentoo-smolt-9999/work/gentoo-smolt-9999/client: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
* ERROR: app-admin/gentoo-smolt-9999 failed:
* Install failed
*
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 48: Called src_install
* environment, line 3509: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* emake install DESTDIR="${D}" || die "Install failed";
*
* If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info =app-admin/gentoo-smolt-9999',
* the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv =app-admin/gentoo-smolt-9999'.
* This ebuild is from an overlay named 'sping': '/usr/local/portage/layman/sping/'
* The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-admin/gentoo-smolt-9999/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-admin/gentoo-smolt-9999/temp/environment'.
* S: '/var/tmp/portage/app-admin/gentoo-smolt-9999/work/gentoo-smolt-9999'
sandbox:main signal SIGQUIT already had a handler ...

I'll retry a few more times before I go to bed. Coming from 98.198.198.151 if it helps you track it down in the logs (6:30AM here, soon to bed, dunno if ill be up long enough to suss it out on IRC or whatnot - I could do so tomorrow)

I did have another question though regarding submissions from users with multiple Gentoo systems.

If I have a half dozen Gentoo machines, would you be interested in one from each?
Or would one submission per user be more useful data for you?